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There are five things which no one is able to accomplish in this world: first, to cease growing old when he is… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
The moles nested in my cellar, nibbling every third potato, and making a snug bed even there of some hair left after… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The doctrine of foreordination is not a doctrine of repose; instead, it is a doctrine for second- and third-milers, and it will… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
Anybody who writes a book is an optimist. First of all, they think they're going to finish it. Second, they think somebody's… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
To throw in a fair game at Hazards only three-spots, when something great is at stake, or some business is the hazard,… — Gerolamo Cardano Copy Share Image
In a head-on collision with Fanatics, the real problem is always the same: how can we possibly behave decently toward people so… — David James Duncan Copy Share Image
Ladies are always of great use to the party they espouse, and never fail to win over numbers to it. Lovers, according… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
I'm a husband and a dad. Two thirds of my day is spent being that character. It's a huge part of my… — Ben Sollee Copy Share Image
While the astronauts, heroes forever, spent mere hours on the moon, I have remained in this new world for nearly thirty years.… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
In the name of short-term stimulus, he [Obama] will give every American family (who makes less than $200,000) a welfare check of… — Dick Morris Copy Share Image
For the world is an ever-elusive and ever-disappointing mirage only from the standpoint of someone standing aside from it—as if it were… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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I’m American. I can’t stand Brazilians. They live in a third-world country anyway, so they’ll go anywhere if there’s a little money.… — Phil Baroni Copy Share Image
Just for you non-sea-god types out there, don't go swimming in New York Harbor. It may not be as filthy as it… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
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You have to see the stories [The New York Times] have written, it's one after another, after another, and facts mean nothing,… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
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Each story, good and bad, short or long-from that trip to the mall when you saw Santa, to a long, bad illness-they… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
Waiting for God is not laziness. Waiting for God is not the abandonment of effort. Waiting for God means, first, activity under… — G. Campbell Morgan Copy Share Image
Some foreigners with full bellies and nothing better to do engage in finger-pointing at us. First, China does not export revolution; second,… — Xi Jinping Copy Share Image
And now, Elric had told three lies. The first concerned his cousin Yyrkoon. The second concerned the Black Sword. The third concerned… — Michael Moorcock Copy Share Image
My company is now in it's third year of trading with CBS accountants. I have found them 100% professional and their expertise… — Christopher Wray Copy Share Image
I'm a writer first and an editor second... or maybe third or even fourth. Successful editing requires a very specific set of… — Lynn Abbey Copy Share Image
Two thirds of federal disaster aid is weather related,and though we cannot prevent bad weather, we are getting better at predicting it.… — William M. Daley Copy Share Image
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It's the interaction between those characters that really makes that movie as special as it is, and I'm proud to say, as… — Jeph Loeb Copy Share Image
George Bush, within a week of this [the 9/11 attacks], in a speech, attempting to distinguish US from the Muslim fundamentalists, said… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The mystery school continued throughout the greater Egyptian civilization, which was the second age of humankind and later on into the third… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It was one thing to sacrifice your own life for someone else's. It was another thing entirely to bring into the mix… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Stupid presidents, smart presidents, white presidents, black presidents -- doesn't work! What this country needs is a crazy Third World dictator. And… — Lewis Black Copy Share Image
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When I'm getting ready to persuade a person, I spend one-third of the time thinking about myself, what I'm going to say,… — Emile Coue Copy Share Image
'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice,… — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
On the sled, in the box, lay a third man whose toil was over, - a man whom the Wild had conquered… — Jack London Copy Share Image
'Fair' is one of the most dangerous concepts in politics. Since no two people are likely to agree on what is 'fair,'… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image